BladeForums BEST BOWIE 2010 - Here are your finalists - let the voting begin!

[RogerP]

I'm so pissed with photobucket right now. ...

So it's not just Fototime, then.

I have a couple options for re-posting the pics so hopefully that will be rectified.

I also edited my opening post to offer to e-mail the pics to anyone who needs to see them to vote in the interim.

Roger

 

[SharpByCoop]

Storage capacity at ANY photo site is one thing. Bandwidth (how much they are viewed) is another.

Fototime Bandwidth policy

Fototime allocates 5 times the amount of bandwidth as the storage capacity (Ex: 4gb storage = 20gb bandwidth.) This is cleared and zero'd out every 30 days. At the END of a month cycle is when the potential for problems may arise.

I do not use Photobucket, but if you search, I am certain that's in their fine print, too. If you have a basic Photobucket account, then the sand ran out of the hourglass.

Last year after Blade, I had to up my storage to increase my bandwidth capacity. Fototime just downsizes to 640 wide when they run dry. You have a reserve tank, so to speak.

Coop

 

[2knife]

Bruce Bump

Jerry Fisk

Dave Lisch

Rodrigo Sfreddo

Nick Wheeler

 

[muddy672]

Thanks for hosting the pics 2Knife. I spoke to Roger and also uploaded the pics to my Webshots acct. As a back up I'll post the album link below so you can view the pics on the webshots site should there continue to be any issues.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/579405426FmDwdZ?vhost=home-and-garden

Cheers,

 

[wolfmann601]

There were/are so many submissions that were incredible. Having to narrow this down to even the top five was too much for me to handle.

Amazing knives, most of them!!!

 

[Rodrigo Sfreddo]

Hello guys! WOW Is the first word that came to my mind!!! Thank you so much for the mention on this very selected group of wonderful knifemakers! As Dave said, it's a great honor just to be mentioned here. I'd like to congratulate all the makers for the great works showed, very inspiring,
and thank's for all my knives mentioned, It really made me proud!

All the best!

 

[RogerP]

Thank you David and Matt!

Roger

 

[RogerP]

Fototime just downsizes to 640 wide when they run dry. You have a reserve tank, so to speak.

Coop

Yep - which I have had hapen before. They send you a notification e-mail,and the purchase of additional bandidth immediately returns your photos to full size. This is why I cn't understand why some pics are disappearing completely and only for some people. Anyway, the pics are back, so we can all enjoy th final stretch of this race.

And just as an aside - we already have a record number of votes cast this year, with time left for more to come in.

Roger

 

[RAN]

terrific set of knives presented
Hardest year yet for me to chose( no Hanson)

I feel The Wheeler is the one I'd most likely Purchase at a show
But The Fisk gets my Vote its Spot on and Screams F*I*S*K

 

[JParanee]

Roger I never got the email but it looks like you guys got it covered .

I put them on the first page also Roger

 

[RogerP]

Thanks Joe. :thumbup:

Can't believe how close this thing is - Justice had pulled away but now Moghul is closing the gap. Wow.

Roger

 

[Kevin Jones]

Storage capacity at ANY photo site is one thing. Bandwidth (how much they are viewed) is another.

Fototime Bandwidth policy

Fototime allocates 5 times the amount of bandwidth as the storage capacity (Ex: 4gb storage = 20gb bandwidth.) This is cleared and zero'd out every 30 days. At the END of a month cycle is when the potential for problems may arise.

I do not use Photobucket, but if you search, I am certain that's in their fine print, too. If you have a basic Photobucket account, then the sand ran out of the hourglass.

Last year after Blade, I had to up my storage to increase my bandwidth capacity. Fototime just downsizes to 640 wide when they run dry. You have a reserve tank, so to speak.

Coop

Coop your signiture banner is showing redX for me.

 

[DesRosiers]

To get nominated at all is an honor, and to get to the finals indicates true excellence. There are, obviously no clunkers in this batch. These five knives all represent the finest knives that can be had. To me Rodrigo's work exemplifies the "outside of the box" kind of thinking that pushes the whole craft to new hights. This, and the sheer beauty of his flowing lines has our vote.

 

[butcher_block]

that sure was not easy but my vote is in
whats done is done

congrats to all that got in on it and more so to the finalist

 

[ptgdvc]

I can understand the appeal. But who decides what's a fighter and what's a bowie? If you think "bowie" is hard to define, try defining a fighter.
Roger

I think the simple answer is to have two categories, 1. Blades 10" and over, and 2. Blades under 10".

Carbon versus Damascus?

 

[Kevin Jones]

In all seriousness, it's probably best just to leave the contest as is. We will never please everyone in an endeavor like this, but only make it more complicated and difficult to pull off.

It's basically a knife photo contest that increases the enjoyment of the Holiday season for many of us. I would bet that in any given year if we had the top 25 nominees submitted for actual inspection/judging the final results would be significantly different.

We enjoy it, it brings the community closer, we learn more about knives and one another, so it's working pretty good as far as I'm concerned. `

 

[Lorien]

In all seriousness, it's probably best just to leave the contest as is. We will never please everyone in an endeavor like this, but only make it more complicated and difficult to pull off.

It's basically a knife photo contest that increases the enjoyment of the Holiday season for many of us. I would bet that in any given year if we had the top 25 nominees submitted for actual inspection/judging the final results would be significantly different.

We enjoy it, it brings the community closer, we learn more about knives and one another, so it's working pretty good as far as I'm concerned. `

:thumbup:

 

[Mike Krall]

Yes, it certainly does. A couple past winners arguably fall closer to "fighter" than "bowie" - particularly Burt Foster's laminate piece that won the inaugural thread.

Also, if Bruce had named his piece "Justice Fighter" would anyone be saying "Yer crazy! That aint no fighter!"? Once outside of the big brawny wide-bladed deep-clipped Southwest profile, there is a TON of overlap between fighter and bowie in terms of design.

Then again, I don't know that there has been a single year when there hasn't been some discussion of what is and isn't a bowie.

I understand that indivisuals have strong views on the subject, but the fact remains that there isn't a contemporary and universally accepted definition of the term. Arguably, there never has been. Witness the hugely varied styles of antique bowies - all made at a point in time much closer to original than any knife today.

Like I said - this thread affords individuals the opportunity to choose for themselves what qualifies, without having some external and likely arbitrary definition foisted upon them. Everyone who wants a vote gets a vote.

Roger

Those are a lovely bunch of words, Roger... the last sentence really makes me smile...

Mike

 

[Kohai999]

Yes, it certainly does. A couple past winners arguably fall closer to "fighter" than "bowie" - particularly Burt Foster's laminate piece that won the inaugural thread.

Like I said - this thread affords individuals the opportunity to choose for themselves what qualifies, without having some external and likely arbitrary definition foisted upon them. Everyone who wants a vote gets a vote.

Roger

It's basically a knife photo contest that increases the enjoyment of the Holiday season for many of us. I would bet that in any given year if we had the top 25 nominees submitted for actual inspection/judging the final results would be significantly different.

We enjoy it, it brings the community closer, we learn more about knives and one another, so it's working pretty good as far as I'm concerned. `

Sure, kumbaya.

And...if the Sfreddo won the "BladeForums BEST BOWIE 2010" the rest of the knife world/community could point to this thread and exclaim (accurately) that BladeForumites are so stupid they cannot tell the difference between a fighter and a bowie.

Odd situation where you and Kevin are in accord, and I am on the outs with both of you, in the corner spitting venom, but so be it.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

 

[Russ Andrews]

WHEELER..........LEAN and CLEAN.